Louie Gohmert Quotes

The two most dangerous words in the English language are not "nuclear war." They are "socialized medicine.

Socialized medicine ... forced its way into our political vocabulary.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.

What's exciting to me is figuring out something that has eluded us for so long: How do we make sure every single person can see a doctor in this country? That's really exciting to me.

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.

The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it's bad politics. It's bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.

I am a supporter of Medicare for All.

I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it....This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism....It's unconstitutional.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

The last thing we need is Hillarycare. The last thing we need is socialized medicine.

We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

I think we obviously need health care. Of course we need health care, but I think that it's gone too far the other way, and I don't understand it. It's gotten so complicated. The minute they made a deal with the drug companies, you know something isn't kosher here.

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.